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I got side tracked over the discussion of Germany "not being amused" by this. Wait, so this bust was made by Egyptians over 3000 years ago and the Germans are
by JustSomeNobody 11y ago
I got side tracked over the discussion of Germany "not being amused" by this.
Wait, so this bust was made by Egyptians over 3000 years ago and the Germans are not happy someone made a scan of it!? It's almost disgusting that anyone can lay claim to this work of art! It should "belong" to ALL of us at this point.
- inanutshellus 11y agoWouldn't it be fantastic to be sued for selling a Nefertiti bust replica for, say, copyright or trademark infringement? rm -rf /publicdomain
- neves 11y agoHa! Now you want to close all the museums of the world? Louvre, Vatican, British Museum all of them is filled of stolen pieces. What kind of subversive are you?
- riffraff 11y agoOT, but do the vatican museums have "stolen art"? It's been decades since I went, but I seem to recall mostly stuff made explicitly for (various incarnations of) The Church. There is stolen stuff appropriated and variously recycled in many cathedrals/chapels/basilicas, I just don't remember it in the vatican.
- neves 11y agohttp://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MEZ/MEZ_Main.html http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MEZ/MEZ_Main.html
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoNo. That wouldn't have to happen.
- sageikosa 11y agoIt wasn't even known about until about 100 years ago. It's not like it's a great treasure admired throughout the ages; more of a pop-culture curiosity from the past century that was created millennia before.
- johansch 11y agoGermany is incredibly aggressive when it comes to intellectual "property".
- monochromatic 11y agoHow would this be protectable IP though? It's thousands of years old--doesn't Germany have a concept of the public domain?
- twerkmonsta 11y agoTo be fair, Germans have never been very "amused" by anything.